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Author: Peter Dale ,
Brandon C. Yen
Publisher: ACC Art Books
Imprint: ACC Art Books
Weight: 1.080kg
ISBN: 9781851498956
ISBN 10: 1851498958
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 12 June 2018
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
As the authors of this wonderfully illuminating book reveal again and again, Wordsworth's feeling for plants is inseparable from the principles and practices of his entire life and work...What could be more appropriate to a book about that most collaborative of poets and his lifelong love of the unassuming living things enjoyed by everyone who pauses to notice them? -Fiona Stafford - The Times Literary Supplement 2019. Well researched and beautifully designed. --Peter Parker, Hortus Magazine.
"""As the authors of this wonderfully illuminating book reveal again and again, Wordsworth's feeling for plants is inseparable from the principles and practices of his entire life and work...What could be more appropriate to a book about that most collaborative of poets and his lifelong love of the unassuming living things enjoyed by everyone who pauses to notice them?""-Fiona Stafford - The Times Literary Supplement 2019. ""Well researched and beautifully designed.""--Peter Parker, Hortus Magazine."
As the authors of this wonderfully illuminating book reveal again and again, Wordsworth's feeling for plants is inseparable from the principles and practices of his entire life and work...What could be more appropriate to a book about that most collaborative of poets and his lifelong love of the unassuming living things enjoyed by everyone who pauses to notice them? -Fiona Stafford - The Times Literary Supplement 2019
Author Information
Peter Dale took his degree at Selwyn College, Cambridge. He is a poet, musician, antiquarian bookbinder and gardener who has contributed numerous articles to Hortus, the prestigious British horticultural journal. He is the author of a forthcoming book about the Irish garden and its spirit. Peter has lectured widely on music and literature, for the WEA and the Wordsworth Conference Foundation, amongst other institutions. Brandon C. Yen received his doctorate at Queens' College, Cambridge and is now a research fellow at University College Cork, where he works on Wordsworth's connections with Ireland. He is the author of a book-length study of Wordsworth's long poem, The Excursion (Liverpool University Press, 2018). In 2017, Brandon curated an exhibition on 'Wordsworth's Flowers' for the Wordsworth Museum in Grasmere.
